If you publish to GitHub, also mind that you grant them a separate license to your code[1] which grants them the ability to do things, including "[...] the right to do things like copy it to our database and make backups; show it to you and other users; parse it into a search index or otherwise analyze it on our servers [...]"
They don't mention training Copilot explicitly, they might throw training under "analyzing [code]" on their servers. And the Copilot FAQ calls out they do train on public repos specifically.[2]
So your license would likely be superceded by GitHub's license. (I am not a lawyer)
Maybe; I'm not even going to bother parsing all that tonight.
OTOH, if I create software and publish it on gitlab, and I'm not a github user, and someone else copies it to github, that doesn't scrub my license off or give github any rights at all to my software, no matter what their agreement with whoever uploaded the software was.
Another thing to add to the uBlock filters alongside the cookie banners. Can't wait to wade through a dozen regulatory warnings to visit a website if you don't block it all.
Basing off Yahoo historical price data, Bitcoin prices first started being tracked in late 2014. So my guess would be the increase from then to 2022 could have largely been attributed to crypto mining.
The energy impact of crypto is rather exaggerated. Most estimates on this front are aiming to demonstrate as a high value as possible, and so should be taken as higher upper bound, and yet even that upper bound is 'only' around 200TWh a year. Annual energy consumption is in the 24,000TWh range with growth averaging around 2% or so per year.
So if you looked at a graph of energy consumption, you wouldn't even notice crypto. In fact even LLM stuff will just look like a blip unless it scales up substantially more than its currently trending. We use vastly more more energy than most appreciate. And this is only electrical energy consumption. All energy consumption is something like 185,000 TWh. [1]
I'd say Mullvad is on the more accessible side, since a Mullvad subscription can be obtained through a relatively small amount of cash. All you need is a few dollars and the ability to mail a letter with a few bucks to Europe.
Wisconsin is a state that's been looking at banning VPNs[1]. And they also apply laws to "companies commonly known to provide VPN services" - which makes me wonder how far that goes. Because technically I could get a free AWS instance, spin up Tailscale on it, and I have a VPN. Is AWS a VPN company since they certainly host servers that are used for VPNs? Who knows!
I wonder if it's a matter of the relative usage of those tools being very small compared to what already exists, and the few artists that want to muddy their work fir it. But even if it was significant, I'm sure the next thing to release would be AI models designed to try and revert nightshade/glaze changes into something that works again.
I wonder if one could do something to protect images in a similar way that Anubis protects webpages from scrapers. Where the data sent from the server is mathematically obfuscated such that the client has to do some heavy calculating to get the final product.
It wouldn't stop an individual from collecting a small sample set, but it would discourage mass scraping.
> But even if it was significant, I'm sure the next thing to release would be AI models designed to try and revert nightshade/glaze changes into something that works again.
I don't think it's even "reverting". Glaze isn't generically anti-AI, Glaze tries to exploit flaws in one particular image AI implementation, by actually testing its reaction to a disturbance in the image.
The approach only works if the model at all cares about the type of disturbance being created.
Other models likely don't notice anything at all, there's nothing for them to revert.
> It wouldn't stop an individual from collecting a small sample set, but it would discourage mass scraping.
IMO, if they want to, they will do it. AI training already requires mass amounts of CPU/GPU power. They can also use it to solve your calculation challenge, and anyone training models will have enough horsepower available as to dwarf anything any reasonable client machine could deal with.
> it really is superior to the Carplay experience (a square in the middle of the round screen, vs a map that takes up nearly the entirety of the screen
I haven't used CarPlay since I'm an Android user, but this reeks to me of a manufacturer developing a problem so they could seek rent for the solution.
If there were no financial incentive otherwise, they certainly would have ensured the CarPlay experience was as nice as their own solution as a selling perk.
At the time the code was/is written, I'm betting carplay offered up a square viewport. Apple's since wanted to offer up multi-display solutions to be the AV/GUI for cars...I think Aston Martin took them up on that...but a number of other manufactures are backing off on that (GM) I suspect because they want to distance themselves from a look and feel you could get in other cars.
I'm not a fan of subscriptions, but in this case, the $10 seemed like good value for features. the map is better, and it's much better integrated into the HUD.
It felt like you were getting more, unlike having buttons that don't work unless you pay...weird psycholgical difference between a subscription and being held hostage.
> access to social media increases populism, extremism, and social unrest.
I don't think this is necessarily a byproduct of social media, itself. But rather, the byproduct of algorithmic engagement farming social media that capitalizes on inciting negative emotions for retention. Which, I concede, is all of the large ones.
I'm sure, also, that some amount of cause will also be concern of foreign adversaries using social media to sway young people against their government as well. Since they're easier to influence than your typical adult.
>But rather, the byproduct of algorithmic engagement farming social media that capitalizes on inciting negative emotions for retention.
Very fair, and I use the two interchangeably. In principle you could have (and we have previously had) social media without this sort of algorithmic or virality features.
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